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See also: world-view and world view

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
world view
Wikipedia

Alternative forms

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  • world-view, world view

Etymology

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A calque of German Weltanschauung, equivalent to world +‎ view.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Mid-Atlantic US):(file)

Noun

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worldview (plural worldviews)

  1. A person's personal view of the world and how one interprets it; any ingroup's or society's mainstream view thereof.
    Near-synonym: cosmovision
    • 2023 May 24, Nadine Schmidt and Sophie Tanno, “Germany intensifies scrutiny of far-right AfD, labeling its youth wing ‘extremist’”, in CNN‎[1]:
      According to the BfV, the JA promotes an ethno-nationalist worldview that ostracizes anyone who is not a native, white German.
    • 2023 November 17, Blake Montgomery, “White House condemns Elon Musk’s ‘abhorrent’ antisemitic tweets”, in The Guardian‎[2], →ISSN:
      “You have said the actual truth,” Musk tweeted in reply. X users, including many in the tech industry, lambasted the posts, though other users agreed with Musk and said they were gleefully watching him sink into their hateful worldview.
    • 2025 May 21, Manisha Krishnan, “IVF Clinic Bombing Suspect Was Linked to ‘Anti-Life’ Ideology. Experts Fear Its Growing Influence”, in WIRED‎[3], archived from the original on 21 May 2025:
      The bombing comes over a week after ISD released a report about how nihilistic worldviews are fueling violence in the US and Europe.
  2. The totality of one's beliefs about reality.
    Near-synonym: cosmology
  3. A general philosophy or view of life.
    The Elizabethan worldview differs from a modern worldview.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 7:
      Human beings feel safe and secure when they can stand confidently in the center of things, either in the center of an age or in the center of a class of people with a common world-view, but when they come to an edge, they feel nervous and unsettled.
    • 1986, Piotr Buczkowski, Andrzej Klawiter, editors, Theories of Ideology and Ideology of Theories‎[4], Rodopi, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 57:
      The Enlightment worldview, which considered the order of "Nature" as a basis and, at the same time, the subject of explorations of scientific natural sciences, has, at the same time, considered this order as a criterion of the artistically-aesthetic qualities of art. From an "ideological" point of view, it liberated art from its feudal religious and courtly servitude.
    • 2009 June 2, Ed Gungor, What Bothers Me Most about Christianity: Honest Reflections from an Open-Minded Christ Follower, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 13:
      Some worldviews are based in a belief in God; others are not. Buddhism, Taoism, atheism, Marxism, and existentialism are examples of worldviews that are nontheistic.

Synonyms

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  • weltanschauung, philosophy, belief system

Related terms

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  • NPOV
  • point of view
  • POV
  • viewpoint
  • world model

Translations

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personal view of the world — see also cosmovision
  • Afrikaans: wêreldbeskouing
  • Albanian: botëkuptim (sq) m
  • Arabic: رُؤْيَة كَوْنِيَّة f (ruʔya kawniyya), رُؤْيَةُ الْعَالَم f (ruʔyatu l-ʕālam)
  • Armenian: աշխարհայացք (hy) (ašxarhayacʻkʻ)
  • Azerbaijani: zehniyyət, dünyagörüşü (az)
  • Belarusian: светапо́гляд m (svjetapóhljad), сьветапо́гляд m (sʹvjetapóhljad)
  • Bengali: দৃষ্টিভঙ্গি (bn) n (driśṭibhoṅgi)
  • Bulgarian: мирогле́д (bg) m (mirogléd)
  • Catalan: cosmovisió (ca) f
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: 世界觀 / 世界观 (sai3 gaai3 gun1)
    Hokkien: 世界觀 / 世界观 (sè-kài-koan)
    Mandarin: 世界觀 / 世界观 (zh) (shìjièguān)
  • Czech: světový názor m, světonázor m
  • Danish: verdensanskuelse c, verdenssyn n
  • Dutch: wereldbeeld (nl) n, wereldbeschouwing (nl) f
  • Esperanto: mondkoncepto, mondbildo
  • Estonian: maailmavaade
  • Finnish: maailmankatsomus (fi)
  • French: vision du monde (fr) f
  • Frisian:
    West Frisian: wrâldbyld n
  • Georgian: მსოფლმხედველობა (msoplmxedveloba)
  • German: Weltanschauung (de) f, Weltbild (de) n
  • Greek: κοσμοθεωρία (el) f (kosmotheoría), κοσμοείδωλο (el) n (kosmoeídolo)
  • Hebrew: הַשְׁקָפַת עוֹלָם f
  • Hindi: विश्वदृष्टि f (viśvadŕṣṭi), विश्व-दृष्टिकोण m (viśva-dŕṣṭikoṇ)
  • Hungarian: világnézet (hu), világszemlélet (hu)
  • Icelandic: heimsskoðun f, heimsmynd f
  • Indonesian: pandangan dunia
  • Italian: Weltanschauung f (literary), visione del mondo f, concezione del mondo f
  • Japanese: 世界観 (ja) (せかいかん, sekaikan)
  • Kazakh: дүниетаным (dünietanym)
  • Korean: 세계관(世界觀) (ko) (segyegwan)
  • Kyrgyz: көз караш (ky) (köz karaş), дүйнөгө болгон көз караш (düynögö bolgon köz karaş)
  • Latvian: pasaules uzskats m
  • Lithuanian: pasaulėžiūra f
  • Macedonian: светоглед m (svetogled)
  • Malay: pandangan dunia
  • Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: verdensanskuelse m
  • Persian:
    Iranian Persian: جَهان‌بینی (jahân-bini)
  • Polish: światopogląd (pl) m
  • Portuguese: visão de mundo f, mundividência f, cosmovisão (pt) f
  • Romanian: weltanschauung (ro) n, concepție despre lume (ro) f
  • Russian: мировосприя́тие (ru) n (mirovosprijátije), мироощуще́ние (ru) n (mirooščuščénije)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: светона́зор m, свјетона́зор m
    Latin: svetonázor m, svjetonázor (sh) m
  • Slovak: svetonázor m
  • Slovene: svetovni nazor m
  • Spanish: visión del mundo f, forma de ver la vida f, manera de ver el mundo f, modo de ver el orbe m, mundovisión f, parecer mundial m
  • Swedish: världsåskådning (sv) c, världsbild (sv) c
  • Tajik: ҷаҳонбинӣ (jahonbini)
  • Thai: โลกทัศน์ (lôok-tát), ทัศนะต่อโลก (tát-sà-ná-dtɔ̀ɔ-lôok)
  • Turkish: dünya görüşü (tr)
  • Turkmen: dünýägaraýyş
  • Ukrainian: світосприйняття́ n (svitospryjnjattjá), світовідчуття́ n (svitovidčuttjá)
  • Urdu: please add this translation if you can
  • Uyghur: دۇنيا قاراش (dunya qarash)
  • Uzbek: dunyoqarash (uz)
  • Vietnamese: thế giới quan (vi) (世界觀)
  • Welsh: byd-olwg m or f
totality of one's beliefs about reality
  • Afrikaans: wêreldbeskouing
  • Armenian: աշխարհայացք (hy) (ašxarhayacʻkʻ)
  • Azerbaijani: zehniyyət, dünyagörüşü (az)
  • Belarusian: светапо́гляд m (svjetapóhljad), сьветапо́гляд m (sʹvjetapóhljad)
  • Bengali: বিশ্বদর্শন (bn) n (biśśodorśon)
  • Bulgarian: мирогле́д (bg) m (mirogléd)
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: 世界觀 / 世界观 (sai3 gaai3 gun1)
    Hokkien: 世界觀 / 世界观 (sè-kài-koan)
    Mandarin: 世界觀 / 世界观 (zh) (shìjièguān)
  • Dutch: wereldbeeld (nl) n
  • Estonian: maailmavaade
  • Finnish: maailmankatsomus (fi)
  • German: Weltbild (de) n
  • Greek: κοσμοθεωρία (el) f (kosmotheoría)
  • Indonesian: pandangan dunia
  • Italian: modo di vedere m
  • Japanese: 世界観 (ja) (せかいかん, sekaikan)
  • Kazakh: дүниетаным (dünietanym)
  • Korean: 세계관(世界觀) (ko) (segyegwan)
  • Macedonian: све́тоглед m (svétogled)
  • Polish: światopogląd (pl) m
  • Russian: мировоззре́ние (ru) n (mirovozzrénije)
  • Thai: การมองโลก (gaan-mɔɔng-lôok)
  • Ukrainian: світо́гляд m (svitóhljad)
general philosophy or view of life
  • Afrikaans: wêreldbeskouing
  • Armenian: աշխարհայացք (hy) (ašxarhayacʻkʻ)
  • Azerbaijani: zehniyyət, dünyagörüşü (az)
  • Belarusian: светапо́гляд m (svjetapóhljad), сьветапо́гляд m (sʹvjetapóhljad)
  • Bengali: বিশ্বদর্শন (bn) n (biśśodorśon)
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: 世界觀 / 世界观 (sai3 gaai3 gun1)
    Hokkien: 世界觀 / 世界观 (sè-kài-koan)
    Mandarin: 世界觀 / 世界观 (zh) (shìjièguān)
  • Dutch: wereldbeeld (nl) n
  • Esperanto: mondbildo
  • Estonian: maailmavaade, elukäsitus
  • Finnish: maailmankatsomus (fi), elämänkatsomus (fi)
  • German: Weltanschauung (de) f
  • Greek: κοσμοείδωλο (el) n (kosmoeídolo)
  • Indonesian: pandangan dunia
  • Italian: modo di vedere m
  • Japanese: 世界観 (ja) (せかいかん, sekaikan)
  • Kazakh: дүниетаным (dünietanym)
  • Korean: 세계관(世界觀) (ko) (segyegwan)
  • Macedonian: светоглед m (svetogled)
  • Polish: światopogląd (pl) m
  • Russian: мировоззре́ние (ru) n (mirovozzrénije)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: светона́зор m, свјетона́зор m
    Latin: svetonázor m, svjetonázor (sh) m
  • Thai: การมองโลก (gaan-mɔɔng-lôok)
  • Ukrainian: світо́гляд m (svitóhljad)
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